Word Meanings - INDEXTERITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness. Harvey.

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• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• DEXTERITY
  1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
• HANDSOME
  -some. It at first meant, dexterous; cf. D. handzaam dexterous, 1. Dexterous; skillful; handy; ready; convenient; -- applied to things as persons. That they be both easy to be carried and handsome to be moved and turned about. Robynson . For
• HANDSAW
  A saw used with one hand.
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• READINESS
  The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness. They received the word with all readiness of mind. Acts xvii. 11. Syn. -- Facility; quickness; expedition; promptitude; promptness; aptitude; aptness; knack; skill;
• HARVEY PROCESS
  A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates, invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in the additional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel by subjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued
• CLUMSINESS
  The quality of being clusy. The drudging part of life is chiefly owing to clumsiness and ignorance. Collier.
• HANDSEL
  hansel, AS. handsa giving into hands, or more prob. fr. Icel. handsal; hand hand + sal sale, bargain; akin to AS. sellan to give, 1. A sale, gift, or delivery into the hand of another; especially, a sale, gift, delivery, or using which is the first
• AMBIDEXTERITY
  A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict. (more info) 1. The quality of being ambidexas, ambidexterity of argumentation. Sterne. Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force,
• UNHANDSOME
  1. Not handsome; not beautiful; ungraceful; not comely or pleasing; plain; homely. Were she other than she is, she were unhandsome. Shak. I can not admit that there is anything unhandsome or irregular . . . in the globe. Woodward. 2. Wanting noble
• BOTH-HANDS
  A factotum. He is his master's both-hands, I assure you. B. Jonson.
• UNREADINESS
  The quality or state of being unready.
• INDEXTERITY
  Want of dexterity or readiness, especially in the use of the hands; clumsiness; awkwardness. Harvey.
• THREADINESS
  Quality of being thready.